salem spotlight nov 2012

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Salem Health

“Cisco UCS has put us back in control of all our key applications and systems. We know the needs of Salem Health better than anyone else, and with Cisco manageability, we can do a better job than anyone else of making sure our systems support our organization’s success.” Jason Murray, Senior Server Administrator

• Industry: Healthcare

• Employees: 4000

• Location: Salem, Oregon

• One of the largest acute-care hospitals and operates the busiest emergency department in Oregon

• In 2011, services provided included 3000+ births, 150,000+ diagnostic imaging procedures, 1.4M+ laboratory procedures, and 13,000+ surgeries

• Theater: Americas

CUSTOMER STATS

CHALLENGE• Improve performance and availability of critical systems

• Increase system manageability for greater business agility

• Reduce IT costs

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS• Cisco UCS infrastructure provides a high-performance, always-

available, and easy-to-manage environment to support mission-critical systems and applications

BENEFITS• Reduced time to provision serves by 66 percent through new

virtualized environment

• Cut time to reimage serves from days to a half hour; time to add a new server from months to a day

• Slashed annual operating expenditures by US$900,000 through reduced equipment, licensing, and staffing costs

CISCO DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis

• Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Servers

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

• Cisco Nexus 5020 Switches

• Cisco Nexus 5548 UP Switches

• Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders

• Cisco MDS 9500 Multilayer Director

• Cisco Unified Computing System Manager

• Cisco ASA Adaptive Security Appliance

• Applications: EPIC, Microsoft Exchange